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place in Iranian history

The “
Tobacco Riots”—as this episode came to be known—were a prelude to the Constitutional Revolution that was to occur in the reign of Moẓaffar al-Dīn Shah (1896–1907), during a time when the country suffered deep economic problems associated with its integration into a world economy. Iran had remained on the silver standard after most countries had...

policy of Nāṣer al-Dīn Shāh

...to construct such complexes as railways and irrigation works throughout Iran. In 1890 he made an even greater error in granting a 50-year concession on the purchase, sale, and processing of all tobacco in the country, which led to a national boycott of tobacco and the withdrawal of the concession. This last incident is considered by many authorities to be the origin of modern Iranian...